Image DAY 87 FASHION & BEAUTY

Essential Light Modifiers

THE BEAUTY DISH

When shooting close-up beauty work, a photographer can make a stunning image by using a single beauty dish as the key light.

This shallow reflector is unique in the fact that a small circular disk is suspended in the center of the reflector so that the bulb is unseen from the front view. The light from the bulb is reflected back to the main reflector and then to the subject. This type of light modifier is most effective when used close to the subject’s face, attached to a boom arm so the light can be lowered into place out of the camera’s view.

A beauty dish attaches to ...

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